KnitWit
@KnitWit@lemmy.world
- Comment on US | Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump 2 days ago:
I saw someone write a thing about how that aspect puts him as more of a stalin dictator than hitler. Executed so many people for delivering truthful bad news that any grasp on a situation was out of reach.
- Comment on US | Hegseth fires general whose agency's intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump 2 days ago:
I saw someone write a thing about how that aspect puts him as more of a stalin dictator than hitler. Executed so many people for delivering truthful bad news that any grasp on a situation was out of reach.
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 2 days ago:
Breonna Taylor would also like a word, but she was killed in a no knock raid on the wrong house while she slept.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
I believe the OP was referring more to consumers of ai in the statement, as opposed to people trying to sell content or whatever, which would be more in line with what you’re saying. I agree with both perspectives and I think the Op i quoted probably would as well. I just thought it was a good description of some of the why ai sucks, but certainly nit all of it.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
Someone on bluesky reposted this image from user @yeetkunedo that I find describes (one aspect of) my disdain for AI.
Text reads: Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they’ve handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it’s done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You’re just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 3 weeks ago:
It’s ok cuase Maynard has The Remedy. (Sorry for Youtube)
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 3 weeks ago:
Maybe 45 minutes from there is a little reservoir based vacation are called ‘Kentucky dam village’ that was the location of a family reunion trip that is legendary in my family from 20 something years ago. Also the moment when my immediate family more or less cut off all contact with another part of the family.
- Comment on Single Serve Pudding Cups And Yogurts Are Too Fucking Small. 4 weeks ago:
Single serve containers are too wasteful. Buy a larger quantity and portion to your hearts content. You’ll likely save money as well. End of rant.
- Comment on What was the first water level in a platformer? 1 month ago:
I’d call frogger a platformer, but the water aspect is only aesthetic. So disagree with OP on that but for different reasons.
- Comment on Will Texas Be an AI Powerhouse from its Energy Mega Campus? 1 month ago:
They are known for their electrical grid, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 month ago:
Well, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 month ago:
It’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 month ago:
They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.
- Comment on US Supreme Court allows third country deportations to resume 1 month ago:
I do love the fact that right after Pakistan put him up for that, he starts an unprovoked war. Everyone gets their face eaten, no exceptions.
- Comment on Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow 1 month ago:
Next geo-engineering proposal: suck all that extra energy into space. Just skim a little off the top, maybe we’ll get some of those greenhouse gases out of here while we’re at it. There’s a lot of atmosphere out there, ok. We’re in an abundance economy with the atmosphere. We could probably stand to lose a little if I’m being honest. I ran the numbers through my bespoke AI, AImosphere, and it really liked the idea.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
Oh no, sounds like I should avoid this reddit you speak of. Any suggestions for alternatives?
- Comment on The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash. 2 months ago:
I canceled my recurring over this about a week ago, explaining that this was the reason. One of their people sent me a lengthy response that I appreciated. Still going to wait a year before I reinstate it, hopefully they fully move on from this idea by then.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 months ago:
Never thought I’d cancel my recurring donation for them, but just sent the email. I hope they change their mind on this, but as I told them, I will not support this.
- Comment on How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made [21:55] | LGR 2 months ago:
A schooner is a sailboat, dummiehead!
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 2 months ago:
Was on Bluesky the other day and saw greg pak posted something along the lines of:
_We’ve successfully recreated the pre-elon twitter experience, but we forgot that it also sucked. _
- Comment on Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159 5 months ago:
Much like all the ‘questions’ about voting back in 2020, almost all of these issues come down to people not knowing how shit works and assuming that means that no one else does. So much misinformation is just partial facts with no context.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 6 months ago:
It appears that you are looking to get all of the benefits of community, while absolving yourself of any of the responsibilities. You want to use someone else’s i stance, without having to follow any of their rules. You want to have your own little safe space to spew whatever it is that obviously goes against community guidelines, but also for that space to be able to interact freely with the community. We don’t want to interact with you on that level, that’s why we are all here, following those rules.
If you really want a place where you can say whatever shitty thing you think everyone eeds to hear, then go make your own instance.
Which will be de-federated from all of these instances.
- Comment on Reopening Three Mile Island nuclear plant for Microsoft data centers could cost taxpayers $1.6 billion 10 months ago:
Alternatively, ‘Huge corpo wants to siphon government money to reopen nuclear facility years after disaster’ sure sounds like the dystopian version to me.
